travelgirl sends this in: “I understand what a catenary is, but have no idea what that has to do with the punchline… guess my retirement years are catching up to me :) “
Mouseover text: “Some tires are marketed as all-shape tires, but if driven in a climate with both inverted catenary falls and triangle falls they wear out really fast.”
It’s free advice, and worth every penny you paid.
Mouseover text: “It comes with a certificate of authenticity, which comes with a certificate of authenticity, which comes with a…”
Frogs
And more frogs
Mouseover text: “I understand it’s hard to do more than 300 feet on these 90-second rush jobs, but with a smaller ramp I’m worried the gee forces will be too high for me to do any tricks.”
Not a CIDU; just a map I found fascinating.
iNaturalist is a social network of biologists and fellow travellers. On their app, you can report sightings. I’m using their Seek app, which is an amateur plant identification app but isn’t tied into this database. (It will identify birds and insects if you can get them to stand still and pose well enough.)
The map varies between the banal (bumblebees and milkweed for Illinois) to the inappropriate (the invasive garlic mustard in PA) to the more seriously invasive (spotted lanternflies in NJ).
Unlike my Nextdoor feed, which tends to breathlessly report each siting of a coyote as if we should barricade ourselves inside, coyote is not mentioned on this map.
More info explaining this comic is here.
“They say it’s probably safe to keep orbiting for a while, but if it stays on or starts flashing we might have to call someone.”
Boise Ed sends this in: “I can’t recall ever seeing so clever a use of the fourth wall.”
JMcAndrew sends this in: “I’m assuming Curtis is watching the 1977 schlock horror film “The Incredible Melting Man” which might be the most obscure geezer movie I’ve ever seen referenced in a newspaper comic strip.”
Perhaps some relative of cartoonist Ray Billingsley was in this movie. Billingsley was born in 1957, so he would have been 20 when this was made.
Boise Ed sends this in: “For years, the doctor has been on Ed’s (no relation) case about his weight. Nothing to do with me, no sir.”
Alt-text: If you think curiosity without rigor is bad, you should see rigor without curiosity.
chemgal sends this in: “For those unfamiliar with the strip, it’s worth noting that she is the mother of the young streaker, and the coach chasing him is his dad. Her very chill attitude contrasting the wide-eyed stared of the other spectators is what made me laugh.”
We haven’t actually seen a star fall in since we invented telescopes, but I have a list of ones I’m really hoping are next.
The opposite of gravity is levity, so of course it’s okay to laugh at black holes.
Is it possible cartoonist Randal Monroe has been watching Philomena Cunk’s mockumentaries?
Mark H sends this one in:
Most properties can only boast INDOOR heated floors.
For those artists whose work deals primarily in mixed messages, this place seems ideal:
Following on to Friday’s post (comic repeated below) we have further works of Genii-us.
We should have suspected!
Comics I Don't Understand 